Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor Kelly's South Side home his three adopted children (Twins Patricia and Joseph, 8, and Stephen, 4). celebrated their father's victory by coming down with measles. Father Kelly could not stay home to watch them. He was off to Washington to draw a draft on his new political prestige, to ask $265,000,000 of the $4,880,000,000 provided by the new relief bill in order to give Chicago a new airport, parks, elevated highways, sewers...
Eric Curry, painstaking pupil of innumerable life classes, presented a discouraged group of naked men and women piled up on a rock and entitled As They That Watch for the Morning...
...down a Kent road shouting, singing, bearing effigies of homely Queen Anne and handsome Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. In the procession donkeys bore such placards as: "Queen Anne's Dead!" "The Parsons' Feet Have Been Under Our Table Too Long," "The Tithe Is the Death Watch Beetle Of Agriculture," "Archbishop of Cant. Church on Sunday but Hands Off the Farmer!" Spectators pelted the effigies with stones, clods, dung, mouldy mangel-wurzels. Then they burned them...
...games, from which only the three feeblest of the nine teams in the league are omitted. To the argument that this arrangement renders meaningless all the games prior to the playoffs, league officials have a practical reply: it prolongs the season for three weeks, pleases enthusiasts who like to watch hockey games whether they mean anything or not. Results of the play-offs that started last week confirmed their reasoning. Watched by capacity crowds in five cities were...
...pleasant it would be to view Messrs. Hitler, Long Coughlin et al, stewing in their own juice, swallowing their own words (though the looks on their faces as they did so would be horrible). The demise of the Watch and Ward Society, and the refusal of all intelligent Bostonians to the censorship of acknowledged literature and art--what a delightful fantasy! One's Imagination conjures up any number of idyllic pictures, ranging from the elimination of the profit motive and the brother hood of man, to devices that will render Boston winters things of the past...